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We all know of the koala, kangaroo and kookaburra. But here in Australia, we have another icon, the bogong moth. Just a little brown moth, but the stuff of legend.
They provide a valuable food source for both animals and humans alike. In winter, the larvae feed on the vast, open inland plains. As the weather warms, a journey of over 1000 km is undertaken to the cool caves of the Southern Alps where they aestivate during the hot summer months.
Twice yearly, they migrate by the billion, darkening the sky. One of Australia’s natural wonders.
Well, they did up until a few decades ago when populations began to decline in a big way. And from 2017, 99% of bogongs had disappeared. That is horrific. Reasons cited are lack of rain, draining of the Murray-Darling Basin by agriculture and climate change that decrease host plants for the larvae. Also, light pollution interfering with star and Milky Way navigation by the adult moths.
30 years ago, when we came to live in this location, at this time of year, the whole house would be covered in bogongs. Then, as the years passed, all I saw were single specimens, if that, every year.
And then this weekend, on Saturday night, a wonderful thing happened. Hundreds and hundreds of bogongs rested for a while at my place. I stood on the top balcony, photographed those at rest (there were far more than in these close-up shots) and enjoyed being bombarded by hundreds more. Not for the faint-hearted, but it was absolutely joyous to me and I’m hoping a sign of nature’s resilience.
Agrotis infusa, family Noctuidae. 50 mm wingspan.
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Senator Lidia Thorpe has introduced a bill to prohibit the practice in Australian prisons that advocates say violates the human rights of both mother and child
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The prime minister said he had agreed to a request for air-to-air refuelling of Saudi jets to defend energy infrastructure against the Iran-backed rebels and help keep oil flowing from the Gulf to ease global economic turmoil.
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Burberry’s designer, Daniel Lee, has always loved Birtwell’s prints. When the two met this spring, he fell for “her energy, and her zest for life”, and a one-off Burberry meets Birtwell collection that closed London fashion week was born.
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In the 70s, photographer Langdon Clay took photos of cars parked on NYC streets at night and compiled them into a project: Cars, New York City | 1974-1976.
Using his Leica CL, Kodachrome 25, and a 40 millimeter lens, Clay traversed the streets of 1970’s Manhattan finding automobiles that paralleled their environment. The cinematic images are a result of time exposure, sodium vapor street lights, and the tenacity of youth.
Luc Sante wrote about Clay’s car photographs for the New Yorker:
One of the things that used to make America so distinctive was its cars. If you lived there, you would really have to go abroad for a while and then come back to appreciate the difference. In most countries of the world, cars were modest things, little bean-shaped units designed to take two or three people from here to there. In America, cars were real estate. They were enormous boats in which you could eat, sleep, make love, change clothes, throw parties, maintain an office, practice unlicensed dentistry—or take your six best friends out for a spin. They were a testament to America’s unlimited natural resources: oil, steel, rubber, naugahyde, and, above all, space. American cars could be so huge because the nation’s highways were endless, its city streets were wide, and there was abundant free parking everywhere you went. And that included New York City then, since most of its population took the subway.
A 2016 book featuring these images is out of print, but you can find copies for several hundred dollars. (via atlas obscura)
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NEW YORK (ANP/RTR) - De Iraanse buitenlandminister Abbas Araghchi is aangekomen in New York voor zijn bezoek aan de Algemene Vergadering van de Verenigde Naties, meldden Iraanse media. Dinsdag begint het plenaire debat, waarbij wereldleiders om de beurt het woord krijgen.
Ondanks de oorlog tussen Iran en de Verenigde Staten mag er een Iraanse delegatie afreizen naar New York. Daarbij zijn wel reisbeperkingen opgelegd, net als een verbod op het kopen van bepaalde goederen. De VS hebben geen visa afgegeven voor het communicatieteam van de Iraanse president Masoud Pezeshkian.
Het plenaire debat start dinsdag traditioneel met de Braziliaanse president, Luiz Inácio 'Lula' da Silva. Daarna is de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump aan de beurt, als gastland. Pezeshkian komt woensdagochtend aan het woord.
SHANNON (ANP/RTR) - De Oekraïense president Volodymyr Zelensky heeft op een vliegveld in Ierland de baas van de Amerikaanse inlichtingendienst CIA, John Ratcliffe, ontmoet. Volgens bronnen van persbureau Reuters werden de vliegtuigen van beide mannen bijgetankt terwijl zij met elkaar spraken.
Het is niet bekend wat Zelensky en Ratcliffe besproken hebben. De CIA-baas was eind vorige maand ook al op bezoek in Rusland voor overleg met de Russische inlichtingendiensten. De krant Financial Times schreef daarna dat het de bedoeling was om Ratcliffe een grotere rol te laten spelen bij de onderhandelingen over een einde aan de oorlog tussen Rusland en Oekraïne. Het Witte Huis ontkende dat.
Ratcliffe was zondag op bezoek in Caïro bij de Egyptische president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Zelensky reist naar de Verenigde Staten voor de Algemene Vergadering van de Verenigde Naties en heeft daar een ontmoeting met de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump.
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